Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Awarded by UNFPA

By Samantha Singson | June 4, 2010

At a ceremony at the UN headquarters yesterday, the Bill & Melinda Gates foundation was honored for its work “for outstanding contributions to increasing the awareness of population questions and to their solution.”

At the ceremony, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said, “I particularly commend the Gates’ leadership on reproductive health, family planning and maternal and newborn health.”

Over the years, the Gates Foundation has contributed millions of dollars to UNFPA and the abortion NGO, the International Planned Parenthood Federation.

The Asian Forum of Parliamentarians on Population and Development was also honored yesterday as the winner of the institutional category.

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